Pouring vessel



April 2,1929. DUGAN 1,707,799

' POURING VESSEL FiledrSept. 23, 1927 Inventor Fra TlC iS A; D 11g an,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS A. DUGAN, OF NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY.

POURING VESSEL.

Application filed September 23, 1927. Serial No. 221,494.

In chemical operations and also in culinary dients of the substance to be separated and operations, it is sometimes required to sepawhich will stand heat without softening or rate from mixtures the fractions of higher cracking if heat is required to promote the specific gravity which are liquid or which beseparation. The rim of the bowl is conven- 5 come liquid when the material is warmed and iently indented to assist in locating the han- 45 which separate and settle by gravity, such dle for the proper seating of the valve and materials being greases which contain heavy the relation of the parts is such that the valve oils, and liquors which yield a scum. when set in place on the valve seat will be held The object is to provide a pouring vessel there by gravity and it is not necessary for for such separations which consists of a bowl walls of the valve seat to have a taper such 50 and a spout in communication with the bowl that the valve will bindtherein. adjacent to its bottom through which to dis- In operation, before first filling the vessel, charge the heav liquid'fractions and solids the valve is set in place and while held in suspended therein after they have had an opplace the material to be separatedis put in.

portunity to settle and also to prevent the This is so that none of the unseparated mate- 55 discharge. through the spout of any of the rial will rise in the spout. When a quantity lighter fractions. V of the heavier fractions suflicient to fill .the In the accompanying sheet of drawings spout and cover the entrance thereto has sepwhich forms a part of this description, arated and settled to the bottom of the bowl,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a pouring vessel the valve may be removed. If more mate- 00 which embodies this invention, rial is to be separated than the capacity of the Fig. 2 shows the valve and valve stem to be vessel, only a portion of the separated heavy used therewith, and liquor will be poured OK at a time, leaving Fig. 3'is avertical section through the enough behind to cover the entrance to the pouring vessel. spout, and room thereby made for more of the 65 The vessel comprises a bowl 5 with a handle material to be separated. It will then not be 6 and a spout 7. The spout joins the bowl adnecessary to return the valve. jacent to the bottom of the bowl and at the I claim: point of communication the entrance from Apouring vessel having an open-top bowl,

the bowl into the spout is suitably beveledto an upturned spout communicating with the 70 form a valve seat 8 which is a surface of revobowl adjacent to its bottom, and a valve seat lution, as shown a conical surface, with its which is a surface of revolution'at the point axis XX diagonally'directed toward the of communication between the bowl and the rim on the opposite side of the bowl at 9. spout with its axis diagonally directed to- Cooperating with the valve seat is a valve 10 ward the rim on the opposite side of the bowl, 75 of yielding material, as cork or rubber, and a in combination with a valve rotatablyand restem or handle 11 of wood porcelain or other movably mounted against the valve seat with material int-he form ofa pestle. The niateits stem lying along the axis of the valve seat rials of the pouring vessel and of the pestle and resting on the rim.

are such as will not be attacked by the ingre- FRANCIS A. DUGAN. 

